The Book of Na'Lon

or rather, Inane Ramblings of an Expatriot

Ask me any one question about my writing, then post this in your LJ, so I can satisfy my curiosity about yours.

I know that most of you may not have seen much or indeed any of my writing... I'll make sure that some gets posted on the internet in due course. In the meantime, though, I felt obliged to stick with the meme instructions.

Often I start out with little more than a particular image or scene in mind and a sense of where the story might be going. I then start trying to work towards it and let it grow for a while, until I get more of a feel for the plot -- which does indeed evolve -- and then I work out a 'skeleton plot'. I stick fairly closely to this and try not to write anything out of sequence. But even so, evolution occurs throughout. Sometimes big stuff, sometimes little stuff.

So I guess I do a bit of both, try to stick with the idea, but let the details evolve...

That's quite interesting. That's very much the way I right. It starts with a feeling or an image or a fragment of a scene. It might be the very first scene. But sometimes it is the end and everything then works back from that point